But What Now?

I’d like to temper the post I made yesterday. Things that I’ve thought about since then include
1. we need money
2. we need purpose
3. we could get both from our employment
4. that would be great!
5. maybe there is no pie in the sky thing we could be doing every day
6. but wouldn’t it be nice if [...]

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Most have heard of take back the night. Well how about a movement to take back the day!
My sister in law is 26 months from retirement. Her agency has decided to put her in the worst job of all for the rest of the time she’s there. Why, I ask again, do we go to [...]

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If you could be anything you wanted to be when you retire (i.e., grow up), what would you be? It’s a fair question. When we were young, we had a chance to be whatever we wanted to be, at least that’s what some of us were told, but most of us chose the path of [...]

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Ellen Goodman has always been one of my favorite syndicated columnists, probably because she writes so brilliantly about feminism and social change. In fact, she’s been covering the feminist beat since the beginning of her career in the late 60s. The 60s and 70s must have been an exciting time for her, but I’m writing [...]

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